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packetlostyesterday at 3:27 PM17 repliesview on HN

Oh wow I wish that font was even remotely readable


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exhilarationyesterday at 3:55 PM

Yes the crazy sci-fi font is hard to read, but I have to give them props for being unique. I even like the grammatical mistakes, it's so different than the ultra-polished stuff we usually see here. This project has personality!

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evanjrowleyyesterday at 3:31 PM

The code font is more readable than the rest of the website: https://artanis.dev/scheme.html

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ape4yesterday at 4:32 PM

Dot matrix printer that's low in ink

sigioyesterday at 4:26 PM

Good thing there's reader mode, with a nice and large default system font

sourcepluckyesterday at 4:08 PM

Oh, I thought it was quite fun, and still found it easily readable

accrualyesterday at 6:22 PM

Looks amazing with JS turned off!

realoyesterday at 9:20 PM

It looks like the DUNE font:

https://www.dafont.com/dune-rise.font

graemepyesterday at 5:06 PM

That is horrible.

I did not see it at first as I had JS off. Once I allowed JS the font loaded and .. yuck.

metadatyesterday at 7:47 PM

If you zoom in it's pretty cool how each letter is a matrix of squares, but agreed - very challenging and distracting to try and read when the end result looks interlaced.

rclevengyesterday at 3:50 PM

Agree, had to pop this into chrome devtools to get through the page:

let newStyle = document.createElement('style'); newStyle.innerHTML = 'body { font-family: "Verdana"; background-color: #eee}'; document.head.appendChild(newStyle);

pmontrayesterday at 3:48 PM

I've got a dot matrix printer somewhere in a box that could reprint that site with all the dot lines, if I manage to find it and connect to a computer. I can't remember if it has a serial or parallel port.

UncleOxidantyesterday at 9:39 PM

Oh, that's terrible. There's a reason we don't have dot matrix printers anymore.

initramfsyesterday at 5:04 PM

it would be slightly better if it were black background and green ink

systemsyesterday at 5:35 PM

for me zooming out to 67% worked fine

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einpoklumyesterday at 8:05 PM

At first I thought Artanis was a new font! And even reading the text I couldn't shake the impression that they were offering me this weird font with each character cut up by horizontal lines.

When I zoomed in it looks kind of cute. Maybe I should download the Artanis font after all.

slateryesterday at 7:59 PM

I know we're not supposed to go off on website stuff (per guidelines: "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage") but jfc who thought this design was even remotely a good idea?

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zelphirkaltyesterday at 6:31 PM

I don't see any unreadable parts and found it very readable. I guess yet again saved by not downloading random web fonts onto my machine or not running random JS. Yay! Blocking unnecessary traffic for the win!

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